Children's Books
Biggles of the Camel Squadron.
London: John Hamilton Ltd., no date [c.1934]. [Aviation adventure] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. With colour frontispiece and four black & white plates by Howard Leigh. Elegantly bound in half navy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean..... More
Biggles And The Leopards Of Zinn.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1960. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Colour frontispiece and five other colour plates by Leslie Stead. Publisher's blue cloth, red titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 net. Some spotting to edges, jacket with some chips and tears. Very good. Biggles..... More
Comrades in Arms. Stories of 'Biggles' of the R.A.F., 'Worrals' of the W.A.A.F. and 'King' (Gimlet) of the Commandos.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. [Children's adventure story collectionl] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227; [1], blank. With six green-tinted double spread illustrations by Stead, colour frontispiece and title page on pale green coated paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt, pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket. Lacks free endpaper..... More
Comrades in Arms. Stories of 'Biggles' of the R.A.F., 'Worrals' of the W.A.A.F. and 'King' (Gimlet) of the Commandos.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. [Children's adventure story collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227; [1], blank. With six green-tinted double spread illustrations by Stead, colour frontispiece and title page on pale green coated paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt, pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket. Edges lightly spotted..... More
The Magicians of Caprona. [Chrestomanci Series].
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 1980. [Young Adult Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's light brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ionicus, priced at £4.95. Slight wear to board and jacket edges. Near fine. The second in the acclaimed Chrestomanci series..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
Nicobobinus.
London: Pavilion Books, in association with Michael Joseph, 1985. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.175 [1]. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations as well as nine full-page colour illustrations by Foreman. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: Holland.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. [Netherlands] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 82 [10]. With 12 colour-illustrated plates by Nico Jungman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine, green titles to upper, and a colour illustration laid over upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not..... More
Emil Und Die Detektive. Ein Roman Für Kinder.
Berlin-Grunewald: Williams, 1934. [Children's] GERMAN LANGUAGE EDITION, 88th to 100th thousand. Octavo (21 x 17cm). pp.198 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Walter Trier. Publisher's pictorial oatmeal cloth, with the matching pictorial dust-jacket. Interior lightly toned with a few pencil marks, fore-edge faintly spotted. Some toning to top of cloth..... More
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] AUTHOR'S NINETIETH BIRTHDAY EDITION, first thus. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and yellow endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £14.99, and the blue and orange illustrated paper-covered slipcase..... More
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] 'CELEBRATION' EDITION, first thus. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated paper over boards, and orange endpapers, priced at £12.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. The classic and..... More
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. [Children's Classic] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 388 [2]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt tooling to..... More
The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. [Children's Illustrated] FINELY BOUND, first Sambourne illustrated edition. Small quarto (21 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 371; [3]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by Sambourne. In slightly later green full crushed morocco by BAYNTUN for Charles E. Lauriat, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine;..... More
The Water-Babies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.x; 212 [2]. With 12 fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, and frequent in-text illustrations by Smith. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles and decoration to spine and upper. Matching grey endpapers with red decoration..... More
Westward Ho! or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Adventure Novel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 591 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary blue full calf for King Edward's Grammar School, Stourbridge, with raised bands, gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration..... More
The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Rewards and Fairies.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924; 1926; 1926; 1924. [Literature] VINTAGE EDITIONS, pocket editions rare in dust-jackets. Four Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4]; vi; [2]; 276, pp.[8]; 299; [1], pp.[8]; 219; [1], pp.[4]; xii; 338; [2]. Limp red leather binding with gilt tooling to fronts and spines, gilt..... More
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Film Tie-In] ORIGINAL STUDIO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, plus First Thus of the film tie-in book. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 84. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's tan paper over boards, with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
'Puck of Pook's Hill' (complete parts), and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine [Ten monthly parts].
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and Co., 1957. [Oil Industry Advertisements] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 29cm), pp.[26]. A full page colour illustration by Kneebone to face every page of text. Publisher's pink illustrated paper over boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to upper; rear..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. [Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: The Temple Press, 1909. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, an early reissue. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.xii; 304. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text line drawings, all by Rackham. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1888. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 386; [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to board edges and turn..... More